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...n the next 2 years there's unlikely to be any real progress made in the health care legislation coming out of Congress. Democrats are hitting a wall on Medicare, shockingly agreeing with "the other side." ...

...role for government insurance such as Medicare for All. Though such proposals aren’t likely to pass a divided Congress, they’ll lay the groundwork for debate as Democrats vie for their party’s 2020 presidential nominatio...

... cost of taking a client to a ballgame? Or that it’s hard to get an IRS employee on the phone? If so, vent at Congress. Lawmakers pile provision on provision and slash or add tax breaks. According to the IRS Data Book, t...

...hat isn’t fair, and it isn’t smart. Read more from Liz Weston and other top money experts So we should demand Congress index Social Security taxation to inflation, right? Based on the 1983 threshold numbers, that would e...

...costs: 1) Lawmakers face resistance from pharmaceutical manufacturers who aim to maintain their high profits. Congress and state legislatures have put forth options to address our country’s high drug prices, but most pro...

...s that have done all they can to prevent return trips to the hospital. But because of the program's design by Congress, Medicare still will need to punish large numbers of homes.
"There are always going to be winners an...

... (the aforementioned $128,400 in 2018 that adjusts in step with the National Average Wage Index), and whether Congress makes an adjustment to the payroll tax rate at some point in the future. But as things stand now, Soc...

... the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act that required uninsured U.S. citizens to buy plans. Before Congress struck down the individual mandate earlier this year, any adult without insurance was subject to a ta...

... to market for devices deemed “substantially equivalent” to products already approved for use. As designed by Congress, that process should have been phased out. Instead, it became the standard path to market for thousan...

... to market for devices deemed “substantially equivalent” to products already approved for use. As designed by Congress, that process should have been phased out. Instead, it became the standard path to market for thousan...

...en you can deduct the portion of that eligible loss that exceeds 10% of your adjusted gross income. (In 2017, Congress waived the 10% AGI floor for victims of Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria and the California wildfires...

...en on capital gains going forward, but that seems rather unlikely at this point. But those types of things in Congress right now would have very little or no impact on current economic activity because they’re largely re...

...d the recipient’s Social Security number as his or her Medicare number, which posed a risk of identity theft. Congress mandated a change in 2015. “It took a very long time, but it’s in the works,” Sue Greeno of the nonpr...

...oday. The Journal analysis points to congressional action in 1978 that “set the stage for a pension retreat.” Congress authorized companies to obtain tax-deferred treatment of executives’ bonuses and stock-options—essent...

Both representatives and senators are chosen through direct election. There are 535 voting Members of Congress; the House of Representatives has a membership of 435 and the Senate has a membership of 100. Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms representing the people of a district. Congressional districts are apportioned to states by population using the United States Census results, each state in the union having at least one representative in the Congress. Regardless of population, each of the 50 states has two senators; the 100 senators each serve a six-year term. The terms are staggered so every two years approximately one-third of the Senate is up for election. Most incumbents seek re-election, and their historical likelihood of winning subsequent elections exceeds 90 percent.[1]

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The Heart Failure Congress, which represents the largest meeting on heart failure in the world, offers the opportunity for everyone in the heart failure community to come together. It will help get delegates up to speed on the core topics and associated technologies that they need in their daily clinical practice.

The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government's medium-term debt dynamics.